Ideas 2025 Bitcoin Cash Improvement Proposals I recommend the VM Limits & BigInt CHIPs for activation in Bitcoin Cash's 2025 upgrade.
Videos General Protocols Space #34: Ask Me Anything I joined General Protocols Space #34 to talk about Virtual Machine Limits, BigInt, the CHIP upgrade process, BCH vs. ETH, decentralized exchanges, and instant finality with Zero-Confirmation Escrows (ZCEs).
Videos Bitcoin Cash Podcast #130: VM Limits & BigInt I joined the Bitcoin Cash Podcast to talk about the Virtual Machine Limits & BigInt CHIPs, the CHIP upgrade process, and instant finality with Zero-Confirmation Escrows (ZCEs).
Software Bitauth IDE v1.0.0 Released The first long-term stable (LTS) release of Bitauth IDE, v1.0.0, is now available. This upgrade significantly improves performance, enables offline usage, and clears the way for future development.
Software Libauth v2.0.0 Released Libauth v2.0.0 is now available, and the library has reached over 1 million annual downloads, with consistent growth in daily downloads.
Software Bitcoin Cash Upgrade 2024 Libauth, Chaingraph, and Bitauth IDE support one Cash Improvement Proposal (CHIP) for the 2024 Bitcoin Cash Upgrade.
Videos Bitcoin Cash Podcast #79: CashTokens Creation I joined the Bitcoin Cash Podcast to talk about the history behind CashTokens, Bitcoin Cash technical infrastructure, and directions for future development.
Ideas CHIP: ZCEs – Instant, Secure Payments on Bitcoin Cash Zero-Confirmation Escrows (ZCEs) enable instant, incentive-secure payments on Bitcoin Cash. They require no setup delay or ongoing relationship, and can be safely accepted without a waiting period.
PMv3 AMA on r/btc: Build Decentralized Apps on Bitcoin Cash with PMv3 I was r/btc on Reddit on May 2, 2021 for an AMA (Ask Me Anything). Some topics covered included prediction markets, PMv3, CashTokens, and Bitcoin Cash development.
Videos Video: Prediction Markets on Bitcoin Cash I spoke with George Donnelly about hashed witnesses, PMv3, CashTokens, prediction markets, synthetic assets, decentralized exchanges, BCH scaling considerations, comparisons with ETH, and more.
PMv3 PMv3: Build Decentralized Applications on Bitcoin Cash Bitcoin Cash is already powerful enough to build and scale many applications planned for “global state” systems like Ethereum.
CashTokens PMv3-Based CashTokens A post describing the original 2020 implementation of contract-validated tokens for Bitcoin Cash. Superseded by the CashTokens CHIP.
Ideas Prediction Markets on Bitcoin Cash By cutting through misinformation, prediction markets can save lives, root out corruption, and revolutionize industries.
Ideas RFC: AllowReplay–Safer Splits for Bitcoin Cash AllowReplay allows users to opt-in to replay protection on a per-signature basis, and it’s strictly beneficial to the implementing network.
Bitauth IDE Bitauth IDE Now Supports Active Code Path Highlighting Bitauth IDE now fades out code paths which are not evaluated by the active script, improving the readability of complex evaluations.
Bitauth IDE Time Travel in Bitauth IDE with Scenarios Testing Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash authentication templates in Bitauth IDE is now easier with support for custom scenarios.
Libauth Libauth Has a New Logo Libauth is an ultra-lightweight JavaScript library for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Bitauth applications. Portable, zero dependencies.
Libauth Bitcoin-ts is now Libauth Libauth is an ultra-lightweight JavaScript library for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Bitauth applications. Portable + zero dependencies.
Libauth Deriving & Cracking BIP32 HD Keys in JavaScript The new bitcoin-ts supports BIP32 Hierarchical Deterministic (HD) key derivation, including a method for reversing non-hardened derivation.
Bitauth IDE How to Write Custom Bitcoin Scripts in Bitauth IDE Bitauth IDE is an integrated development environment for bitcoin authentication. This guide explains features of the IDE and language.
Bitauth IDE New Examples Added to Bitcoin Script Debugger BitAuth IDE now includes examples of 3 types of authentication schemes available for securing bitcoin: single signature (P2PKH), a 2-of-3…
Libauth Evaluate and Debug Bitcoin Cash Scripts in JavaScript A full TypeScript implementation of the BCH virtual machine is now available in bitcoin-ts, including both standard evaluation and a…
Libauth Schnorr Signature Support for JavasScript using WebAssembly The latest version of bitcoin-ts [https://github.com/bitauth/bitcoin-ts] now includes support for signing and verifying Schnorr signatures over the secp256k1 curve. Schnorr functionality has been added to the library’s Secp256k1 [https://bitauth.github.io/bitcoin-ts/interfaces/secp256k1.html] WebAssembly interface [https://bitauth.github.io/bitcoin-ts/interfaces/secp256k1.
Bitauth IDE BitAuth IDE: Write and Debug Custom Bitcoin Scripts Bitauth IDE is a new open source project for designing advanced authentication schemes for bitcoin and bitcoin-like cryptocurrencies.
Videos Scaling Blockchains: Panel at TABConf 2019 I took part in a panel on Scaling Blockchains with Paul Sztorc, Theo Goodman, and Allen Piscitello at TABConf 2019.